An In-depth Chandra ACIS View Of The Circumnuclear Region Of NGC 4151: The Jet, The Biconical Outflow, And A Leaky Torus

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We report on the imaging analysis of 200 ks Chandra ACIS-S observations of the nearby Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 4151. Structured soft X-ray emission is observed to extend from 30 pc to 1.5 kpc. We find strong evidence for jet-gas cloud interaction in the inner 150 pc region, confirming our previous HRC results. Self-consistent photoionization models provide good descriptions of the spectra of the optical bi-cone, supporting the dominant role of nuclear photoionization. Presence of both low and high ionization spectral components and extended emission in the X-ray image perpendicular to the bi-cone indicates leakage of nuclear ionization. Using spatially resolved features, we estimate the kinematic power of the outflow in NGC 4151 to be 0.3% of its bolometric luminosity.
This work is supported by NASA grant GO8-9101X and GO1-12009X.

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